Built the front wheel for my utility bike

Another wheel day (and so on).
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I built the front wheel with a Shimano hub dynamo.

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The hub is a DH-C3000-3N-NT in 36H,
fully Campagnolo #14 spokes in radial spoking (non-drive side).
The "3N" in the model number means 3.0W output for rim brake use,
if the number were 2 it would be 2.4W, with no number it's 0.9W,
if the letter were R it would be for front roller brake use,
and D means disc brake use.
The "NT" at the end means the hub shaft is nut-fixed,
whereas for quick-release it would be "QR".
With higher-end grades that don't have a nut-fixed option,
there's no need to specify QR in the first place,
so sometimes there's no model suffix at all.

This hub comes in 28H, 32H, and 36H versions,
but since the only specification available for immediate delivery was 36H
and the rear wheel is also 36H, I went with 36H.

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I chose radial spoking because the distance from the flange hole to the outside is
considerably thicker than on sports bike hubs,
and since it's rim brake equipped, there's no real problem with it.
But beyond that, there's a decisive reason.
I won't go into the details here,
but it's an individual reason based on this particular wheel's situation,
and if I were to build a wheel with the same hub and rim again later,
there's a possibility I'd use tangent spoking instead.

In the case of tangent spoking, since it's a hub dynamo,
there's no risk of accidentally installing it backwards,
so I imagine they went with Italian-style spoking,
but on off-the-shelf utility bike wheels (in the rim brake case),
even with hub dynamos, JIS-style spoking is standard
following convention and specification.
Looking at the connector insertion diagram in Shimano's manual,
it shows reverse Italian-style spoking,
but this might be because they share the manual
with hub-brake wheels
(in the diagram, the left side of the hub isn't visible).

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The rim is an ALEXRIMS DM18,
but the rim decal has been changed to match
the appearance of the company's recent complete wheels.
It's different from the decal on my partner's rear wheel built earlier (→here), but that can't be helped.

As a bigger difference though,
the DM18 I used before was single eyelet specification,
but this rim came without eyelets.
After looking into it, in the sticker designs from one and two years back,
both single eyelet and no eyelet versions were mixed,
and in earlier generations it was no eyelet.
The front and rear rims came from the same wholesaler.

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